NAMA: TSARA AMALIA ATMIRANDA
KELAS: XII IPS 3
SONG
DEFINITION OF SONG
A song is a single (and often standalone) work of music intended to be sung by the human voice with
distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include
the repetition of sections.
SOSIAL FUNCTION OF SONGS
The social function of song are:
- To entertain the listeners.
- To teach moral value through the lyrics of the songs.
- To provide a way of managing the realitionship between our public and private emotional life.
- To express personal feeling and cultural values.
- To give someone to not only shares their emotions with others, but also to have an emotional
connection that just can’t be experienced in any other way.
GENERAL STRUCTURE OF SONGS
The general structure of a song consists of verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus. It is better for us to learn
more about the complete structure of songs.
a. Intro
The introduction establishes melodic, harmonic, and/or rhythmic related to the main body of song.
b. Verse
It is the section of the song structure that tells the story. This is the exposition, describing the scene or
the person, or an emotion. There are usually two or three verses in a row that have the same musical
structure, the same rhyme and poetic meter, but different words. The second verse builds on the picture
painted in the first verse, etc.
c. Chorus of Refrain
A chorus is the most repeated section, so it’s the easiest remembered. A chorus is the summary of the
song’s story. All the verses have been leading up to the chorus, and is usually the part of the song people
sing along with. A chorus can come at the beginning of the song structure; it can also start in the middle,
or come at the end. In fact, some songs don’t have choruses at all. Some people are usually confused to
differentiate between choruses and refrain. A refrain is any line that repeats in the song lyric, while a
chorus is any group of lines that repeat.
d. Break
A break is actually a brief “rest” or “pause” for the core melody within a song used to add further
dimension and excitement. It may include a quick instrumental solo or drum interlude or it may be a
brief moment of silence, or acombination of each of these elements.
e. Bridge
This is the part of the song that shifts. It can suddenly change tempo, or volume, or instrumentation. The
bridge is the section that gives the audience time to reflect on the story, or gives them the “climax” or
conclusion of the story through verses and chorus. Bridges can be used to give the singer a break.
f. Outro or Coda
This is the end of the road for the song. It can repeat the intro, chorus or a refrain as an outro, or a
bridge with an instrumental solo.
LANGUAGE FEATURES OF SONGS
Song lyrics can appeal to emotions, and they should also appeal to the ear. It can be assumed that
different genres of songs will exhibit different styles of lyrics. The verse of songs contains the details of
the song: the story, the events, images, and emotions that the writer wishes to express. Song are not
always composed of simple sentence structure or grammar. Lyrics are characterized by the use of
rhythms, conversational speech, and poetic expressions. The following are the leanguage features of
songs.
Lyrics are written in first, second, or third person given on the specific perspective you choose. Often
time point of views change in lyrics, but only when needed.
They use rhyming words. Usually songs use a familiar catchy tune and rhyme. A rhyme is a linguistic
style, based on consonance or similiar sound of two or more syllables or whole words at the end of one
line; rhymes are most commonly used in poetry and songs.
They use alliteration. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first conconant
sound, occur close together in a series, for example: A big bully beats a baby boy.
Some songs use poetic devices, such as figure of speech and imagery. While songs can paint a vivid
picture since they are longer mediums, imagery can be found in just a single sentences as well. Imagery
is vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses (sight, hearing, touch,semll, and
taste) for example : Her blue eyes were as bright as the sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk. A figure of
speech is a word or phrase that has a meaning something different than its literal meaning.
Some songs use amusing word play and slang language. A word play is the manipulation of language (in
particular, the sounds, and meanings of words) with the intent to amuse; verbal wit. Salng is kind of
language consisting of very informal words and phrases. Slang is more common in speech than in
writing, for example: gonna, wanna, ain’t, etc.
